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  • 2008 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Roger Waldinger is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans social sciences, with a strong emphasis on sociology and political science, demography, and clinical psychology. Their work contributes to an understanding of migration, labor dynamics, and transnational identities, among other related topics.

The main topics covered in Waldinger's research include:

  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Social Capital and Networks
  • Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

Waldinger has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Ethnic and Racial Studies
  • Social Forces
  • Annual Review of Sociology
  • International Migration
  • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Waldinger include:

  • Cross-Border Politics: Diasporic Mobilization and State Response, 2023, Annual Review of Sociology
  • After the transnational turn: Looking across borders to see the hard face of the nation-state, 2021, International Migration
  • Differentiated legality: understanding the sources of immigrants' deportation fear, 2023, Ethnic and Racial Studies
  • Unequal Ties: Immigrants' Initial Social Capital and Labor Market Stratification, 2021, Social Forces
  • When fear spreads: individual- and group-level predictors of deportation worry among Latino immigrants, 2022, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Frequent collaborators in Waldinger's work include:

  • Tianjian Lai
  • Nathan I. Hoffmann
  • Sung S. Park
  • Tahseen Shams
  • Thomas Soehl

Waldinger's work notably explores issues related to migration and its social impacts, including legal status, labor market integration, and diasporic responses to state policies. This body of research situates migration within broader socio-political and economic contexts.

In 2008, Waldinger was recognized as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, reflecting an awarded distinction in their academic career.

Best Publications

  • Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship

    Howard E Aldrich;Roger D Waldinger

  • Still the Promised City?: African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York

    Roger David Waldinger

  • Transnationalism in Question

    Roger D Waldinger;David Fitzgerald

  • How the Other Half Works: Immigration and the Social Organization of Labor

    Roger David Waldinger;Michael I. Lichter

  • Through the Eye of the Needle: Immigrants and Enterprise in New York's Garment Trades

    Roger David Waldinger

  • Second generation decline? Children of immigrants, past and present--a reconsideration.

    Joel Perlmann;Roger Waldinger

  • Primary, Secondary, and Enclave Labor Markets: A Training Systems Approach

    Thomas Bailey;Roger Waldinger

  • The ‘other side’ of embedded ness: A case‐study of the interplay of economy and ethnicity

    Roger Waldinger

  • The making of an immigrant niche.

    Roger Waldinger

  • Will the new second generation experience ‘downward assimilation’? Segmented assimilation re-assessed

    Roger D Waldinger;Cynthia Feliciano

  • Between “Here” and “There”: Immigrant Cross‐Border Activities and Loyalties

    Roger D Waldinger

  • The ethnic enclave debate revisited

    Roger Waldinger

  • Strangers at the Gates: New Immigrants in Urban America

    Roger David Waldinger

  • Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Immigrant Business in Industrial Societies.

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  • Helots No More: A Case Study of the Justice for Janitors Campaign in Los Angeles

    Roger D Waldinger;Chris Erickson;Ruth Milkman;Daniel Mitchell

  • Black/immigrant competition re-assessed: new evidence from Los Angeles.

    Roger Waldinger

  • Immigration and urban change.

    Roger Waldinger

  • Structural Opportunity or Ethnic Advantage? Immigrant Business Development in New York

    Roger Waldinger

  • Ethnic Business and Occupational Mobility in Advanced Societies

    Roger Waldinger;Robin Ward;Howard Aldrich

  • Immigrant enterprise A critique and reformulation

    Roger Waldinger

  • IMMIGRANT ENTERPRISE IN THE NEW YORK GARMENT INDUSTRY

    Roger Waldinger

  • The Continuing Significance of Race: Racial Conflict and Racial Discrimination in Construction

    Roger Waldinger;Thomas Bailey

  • Conflict and contestation in the cross-border community: hometown associations reassessed

    Roger Waldinger;Eric Popkin;Hector Aquiles Magana

  • Back to the Sweatshop or Ahead to the Informal Sector

    Roger Waldinger;Michael Lapp

  • Did Manufacturing Matter? The Experience of Yesterday's Second Generation: A Reassessment

    Roger D Waldinger

  • A cross-border perspective on migration: beyond the assimilation/transnationalism debate

    Roger Waldinger

  • Civic Stratification and the Exclusion of Undocumented Immigrants from Cross-border Health Care:

    Jacqueline M. Torres;Roger Waldinger

  • Taking Care of the Guests: The Impact of Immigrants on Services ‐ An Industry Case Study*

    Roger Waldinger

  • Immigrants' Progress: Ethnic and Gender Differences among U.S. Immigrants in the 1980s

    Roger Waldinger;Greta Gilbertson

  • Reconceptualizing Context: A Multilevel Model of the Context of Reception and Second‐Generation Educational Attainment

    Renee Reichl Luthra;Thomas Soehl;Roger Waldinger

  • Reply to Bonacich: The Two Sides of Ethnic Entrepreneurship

    Roger Waldinger

  • Modes of incorporation: a conceptual and empirical critique

    Roger Waldinger;Peter Catron

  • A Century of Transnationalism: Immigrants and Their Homeland Connections

    Nancy L. Green;Roger Waldinger

  • Immigration and the election of Donald Trump: why the sociology of migration left us unprepared … and why we should not have been surprised

    Roger Waldinger

  • Engaging from Abroad: The Sociology of Emigrant Politics

    Roger Waldinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Bailey
Thomas Bailey Columbia University
Ruth Milkman
Ruth Milkman The Graduate Center, CUNY
Nancy Foner
Nancy Foner City University of New York

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